{"slug": "li-si", "label": "Li Si", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Si", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152919", "qid": "Q152919", "description": "Chinese politician of the Qin Dynasty", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [-279, -207], "span_label": ["280 BCE", "208 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "qin-shi-huang", "label": "Qin Shi Huang", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "philosophy", "label": "Philosophy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "qin-dynasty", "label": "Qin dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "meng-tian", "label": "Meng Tian", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "qin-state", "label": "Qin (state)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "han-warring-states", "label": "Han (Warring States)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ying-zheng", "label": "Ying Zheng", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "confucianism", "label": "Confucianism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -279, "year_label": "280 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Li Si, influential prime minister (or chancellor) of the feudal state and later of the dynasty of Qin (approximate date) (d. 208 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338748993#Births", "title": "280 BC", "revid": 1338748993, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -232, "year_label": "233 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Han Fei, Chinese philosopher who, along with Li Si, has developed Xun Zi's philosophy into the doctrine embodied by the School of Law (or Legalism) (b. c. 280 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1251978680#Deaths", "title": "233 BC", "revid": 1251978680, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -231, "year_label": "232 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The king of Qin, Ying Zheng, invites Prince Han Fei, a legalist philosopher and member of the Han royal family, to the Qin court. However, at the instigation of Li Si, he then has him imprisoned and executed as a threat to the state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1319908071#China", "title": "232 BC", "revid": 1319908071, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -219, "year_label": "220 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Around this time, Prime Minister Li Si publishes Cangjiepian, a primer on the new orthographic standard for all of China, the Small Seal Script.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598324#China", "title": "220 BC", "revid": 1360598324, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -212, "year_label": "213 BCE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Qin Shi Huang and Prime Minister Li Si order all Confucian writings destroyed in the burning of books and burying of scholars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352698514#China", "title": "213 BC", "revid": 1352698514, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -209, "year_label": "210 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Qin Er Shi becomes Emperor of the Qin dynasty of China. His advisors Zhao Gao and Prime Minister Li Si forge a decree by the late Emperor Qin Shi Huang that orders the execution of Qin Er Shi's elder brother Fusu and Fusu's ally, the general Meng Tian.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1254970145#China", "title": "210 BC", "revid": 1254970145, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -207, "year_label": "208 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Qin Prime Minister Li Si is executed by Qin Er Shi, having been conspired against by the eunuch Zhao Gao, who replaces him as Prime Minister.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364334903#China", "title": "208 BC", "revid": 1364334903, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -207, "year_label": "208 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Li Si, Chinese philosopher and politician (assassinated) (b. 280 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364334903#Deaths", "title": "208 BC", "revid": 1364334903, "section": "Deaths"}}]}